| Participating in the international workshop focused on Micro and Mini... Participating in the international workshop focused on Micro and Mini-Nano Dosimetry are (from left) UOW’s Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld; Professor John Dicello (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine); Associate Professor Reinhard Schulte (Loma Linda University Medical Center); and Professor Vince Piscane (United States Naval Academy) |
Centre for Medical Radiation Physics international conference under way
8 Apr 2008 | Bernie Goldie
UOW’s Centre for Medical Radiation Physics is hosting a two part four-day conference which has attracted a range of international specialist researchers.
The first international workshop being conducted on 7 and 8 April is focusing on Micro and Mini-Nano Dosimetry (MMD).
MMD 2008 aims to discuss the current status of sensors for modelling the response of biological cells to mixed radiation fields typical of radiation protection in space and avionics and radiation therapy applications as well as simulation of DNA damage in radiation fields.
The Centre for Medical Radiation Physics is a world leading institution in development of such silicon sensors-microdosimeters and simulations. Together with partners in Australia (ANSTO and UNSW) and in the USA, the centre has embarked on new challenges of radiation measurements for space missions which is being discussed at the MMD 2008.
This workshop has brought together clinicians, radiobiologists, radiation oncologists and medical physicists and NASA scientists.
The second international workshop to be held on 9 and 10 April is focused on the latest technologies for treating prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer that afflicts Australian men.
The workshop will address developments in areas such as brachytherapy, proton therapy (not yet available in Australia), C-12 therapy (not yet available in Australia), image guided radiotherapy, tomotherapy, and targeted alpha therapy.
It is being hosted by the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics in collaboration with the Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, St George Cancer Care Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital, the NSW Prostate Cancer Institute and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.
Two keynote speakers attending the conference are Professor John Dicello who is Professor of Radiation Oncology and Professor of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (with a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health) and the US Naval Academy and Associate Professor James Morris from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
Full conference details are located at the following website http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/MMD_2008/index.html
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